Jeremiah 18:5
Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
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Jeremiah 18:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Jeremiah 18:2
“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”
Jeremiah 18:3
Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels.
Jeremiah 18:4
When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jeremiah 18:5
Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 18:6
“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.
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Romans 9:20
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
Romans 9:21
Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
Isaiah 29:16
You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”
Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’
Isaiah 64:8
But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
Romans 9:23
and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—
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Jeremiah 18:7
At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it,
Jeremiah 18:8
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
Jeremiah 18:9
At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,
Jeremiah 18:10
if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.
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